Katherine Demuth

Katherine Demuth
Alma mater
Occupation
Awards
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (2017)
  • Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2015)
  • Australian Laureate Fellowship (2013) Edit this on Wikidata
Websitehttps://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/eb6e864a-fdc6-4018-a1d3-bbb796330f1d Edit this on Wikidata
Academic career
Institutions
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Katherine Demuth is an American professor of linguistics and the director of the Child Language Lab at Macquarie University.[1] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in February 2018,[2] and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FSSA).[1]

Education and career

She earned a BA from University of New Mexico, and an MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington.[1][3]

Her early works included work on Bantu languages.[4][5][6][7] At Macquarie University's Child Language Laboratory she and her team study language acquisition and development in children (including the hearing impaired,[8][9] Mandarin-speaking children,[10] those with mothers suffering depression,[11][12] and indigenous children[9][13]) and continue her work on child language acquisition from Brown University.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Academy Fellow: Katherine Demuth". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales 529 NSW Government Gazette No 13 of 6 February 2018 Number 13 Tuesday, 6 February 2018" (PDF). Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  3. ^ Curriculum Vitae
  4. ^ Demuth K (1 February 1990). "Subject, topic and Sesotho passive" (PDF). Journal of Child Language. 17 (1): 67–84. doi:10.1017/S0305000900013106. ISSN 0305-0009. PMID 2312646. Wikidata Q47345822.
  5. ^ Demuth K (1 June 1993). "Issues in the acquisition of the Sesotho tonal system" (PDF). Journal of Child Language. 20 (2): 275–301. doi:10.1017/S030500090000828X. ISSN 0305-0009. PMID 8376470. Wikidata Q46872669.
  6. ^ KATHERINE DEMUTH; MARK JOHNSON (1989). "Interaction between Discourse Functions and Agreement in Setawana". Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 11 (1). doi:10.1515/JALL.1989.11.1.21. ISSN 0167-6164. Wikidata Q57262108.
  7. ^ Katherine Demuth; Melissa Kline (September 2006). "The distribution of passives in spoken Sesotho". Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 24 (3): 377–388. doi:10.2989/16073610609486426. ISSN 1727-9461. Wikidata Q105439818.
  8. ^ Benjamin Davies; Nan Xu Rattanasone; Aleisha Davis; Katherine Demuth (7 December 2020). "Is One Ear Good Enough? Unilateral Hearing Loss and Preschoolers' Comprehension of the English Plural". Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research: 1–7. doi:10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00089. ISSN 1092-4388. PMID 33285083. Wikidata Q104105622.
  9. ^ a b Mridula Sharma; Amelia Darke; Gillian Wigglesworth; Katherine Demuth (22 September 2020). "Dichotic listening is associated with phonological awareness in Australian aboriginal children with otitis media: A remote community-based study". International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 138: 110398. doi:10.1016/J.IJPORL.2020.110398. ISSN 0165-5876. PMID 33152986. Wikidata Q101362550.
  10. ^ "Katherine Demuth". The Conversation. 21 February 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  11. ^ Ruth Brookman; Marina Kalashnikova; Janet Conti; Nan Xu Rattanasone; Kerry-Ann Grant; Katherine Demuth; Denis Burnham (12 December 2020). "Maternal Depression Affects Infants' Lexical Processing Abilities in the Second Year of Life". Brain Sciences. 10 (12). doi:10.3390/BRAINSCI10120977. ISSN 2076-3425. PMID 33322798. Wikidata Q104478316.
  12. ^ Ruth Brookman; Marina Kalashnikova; Janet Conti; Nan Xu Rattanasone; Kerry-Ann Grant; Katherine Demuth; Denis Burnham (3 August 2020). "Depression and Anxiety in the Postnatal Period: An Examination of Infants' Home Language Environment, Vocalizations, and Expressive Language Abilities". Child Development. doi:10.1111/CDEV.13421. ISSN 0009-3920. PMID 32745250. Wikidata Q98193696.
  13. ^ Mridula Sharma; Gillian Wigglesworth; Gemma Savage; Katherine Demuth (5 October 2019). "Binaural processing and phonological awareness in Australian Indigenous children from the Northern Territory: A community based study". International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 128: 109702. doi:10.1016/J.IJPORL.2019.109702. ISSN 0165-5876. PMID 31606681. Wikidata Q90672867.
  14. ^ "Demuth: Research in Language Acquisition". www.cog.brown.edu. Retrieved 9 March 2021.